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Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture
By (Author) Donald H. Shively
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Asian history
306.0952
Hardback
712
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
822g
Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the dark